Seth Udinski, FISM News
University of Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh continued his defense of unborn babies in an interview with the notoriously-liberal sports news outlet ESPN.
The interview followed Harbaugh’s comments at a pro-life event earlier this month where he boldly upheld the sanctity of life.
The former NFL quarterback and head coach sat down with host Gene Wojciechowski in an interview last weekend. The conversation covered many topics. Eventually, the two discussed Harbaugh’s recent pro-life comments in light of the Supreme Court’s June decision in Dobbs v. Jackson.
Harbaugh did not appear afraid to enter the potentially contentious conversation. When asked by Wojciechowski, Harbaugh said, “Let’s discuss it.”
He then told Wojciechowski how he would respond if one of his players came to him and confided in him about an unplanned pregnancy.
“I’ve told [them] the same thing I tell my kids, boys, the girls, same thing I tell our players, our staff members. I encourage them if they have a pregnancy that wasn’t planned, to go through with it, go through with it,” Harbaugh said.
Harbaugh then upped the stakes and backed his pro-life beliefs with a promise of action if the situation required it.
Let that unborn child be born, and if at that time, you don’t feel like you can care for it, you don’t have the means or the wherewithal, then Sarah (Harbaugh’s wife) and I will take that baby. Any player on our team, any female staff member or any staff member or anybody in our family or our extended family…that doesn’t feel like after they have a baby they can take care of it, we got a big house. We’ll raise that baby.
Jim Harbaugh backed up his comments yet again when asked about his stance at the Big Ten Media Days, asking, “What kind of person would you be if you didn’t stand up for what you believe in, and fight tooth and nail for it?”
Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh voices his stance on abortion at #B1GMediaDays:
“I believe in letting the unborn be born.” pic.twitter.com/LUJn0V6Kr6
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Harbaugh has quickly become a champion for the pro-life movement in a sphere of influence that is severely lacking in such men. As a devout Roman Catholic, Harbaugh stands shoulder-to-shoulder with many evangelical and Catholic Christians in his stance that life undoubtedly begins at conception, and that life must be defended, whether or not it is in the womb.
“It’s a life-or-death type of issue,” Harbaugh said.